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Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-0813 Guillermo on April 17, 2004, 06:02:11 pm

If you are looking for an air band (aviation) scanner, go for the Uniden Bearcat UBC180XLT. It's very affordable and quite easy to use too. The quality deceases more when you move away from the radio station (in my case at the moment that radio station is Schiphol Tower @ 118.100 MHz, about 20km from where I live), which is obvious, but to think my previous scanner, a Sony from 1987 :o had a better sound quality at my home than the Bearcat. I'm sure it's the antenna, though. New antenna's for greater range are no more than 30€ these days so I might get one soon enough.

Anyway, the Bearcat's an excellent choice if you want to hear some ATC while spotting! It's only €159,- over here, not sure how much it is outside Europe (or even the Neths). Oh by the way, if the seller asks you if you want the UBC280XLT instead, decline his offer. The 280XLT is identical to the 180XLT, only the 280 has more memory to store frequencies.. and it's like 20€ more expensive. Don't get it, you won't even need to store more than 100 aviation freqs:P

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-1077 Emanuele on April 17, 2004, 06:22:20 pm

Cool!

But what this has to do with Screenshots? ;)

Ciao ciao!

Manu

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-0813 Guillermo on April 17, 2004, 09:31:16 pm

Oh you're right, darn. I posted this in the wrong forum :s

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-0744 Alex on April 17, 2004, 11:21:27 pm

Jejeje, well, I guess its kinda like an audio screenshot!

:]

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-1199 Philip on April 18, 2004, 12:02:01 am

Looking forward to listening to a couple of your sond files here ;)

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-0641 Rico on April 18, 2004, 03:14:34 am

I have the Uniden BearCat 296D Digital handheld scanner...capable of listening to encrypted channels

I also have a RadioShack PRO-96 Digital


Both sell for around $500 USD .. or €250

Title: Scanner Reccomendation
Post by: EHM-0813 Guillermo on April 18, 2004, 01:11:28 pm

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Originally posted by Plymyphil
Looking forward to listening to a couple of your sond files here ;)

This is the channel I'm listening to right now: http://www.atcbox.com/Stream/Tower.m3u